5th - 8th Grade Technology Resources

To help prepare our students for the Next Generation Assessments on computers, they need to master typing and navigating the keyboard. Below are a bunch of great links to keyboarding andtyping gamesfor all grade levels that students can work on at home or during free time at school to increase their computer skills.

Use shapes to create a self portrait. In the background/negative space type your name and 10 adjectives that describe yourself (i.smart, funny, athletic) Make A Face

OP Art- Optical Illusion Art

Optical Art(Op Art) is a mathematically-themed form of Abstract art, which uses repetition of simple forms and colors to create vibrating effects, patterns, foreground-background confusion, an exaggerated sense of depth, and other visual effects. Op Art is based on tricks of visual perception: manipulating rules of perspective to give the illusion of three-dimensional space, mixing colors to create the impression of light and shadow, and so on. With Optical Art, the rules that the viewer's eye uses to try to make sense of a visual image are themselves the "subject" of the artwork.

Use the Elements of Art- Color, Value, Line, and Shape to create an Op Art picture using one of the color families: warm colors, cool colors, primary colors, or secondary colors. Students can use various values of the warm and cool colors. Completely cover the Microsoft Paint or Sketchpad "canvas" with geometric shapes layering the shapes over top of each other all over the "canvas" using the shape tools. Then use the paint bucket tool to fill in the areas created by the layering shapes.

Create Your Own Repeating Pattern Rangoli

Rangoliis an art form from India in which patterns are created on the floor in living rooms or courtyards using materials such as colored rice, dry flour, colored sand or flower petals. Rangolis are usually made during Indian festivals such as Diwali and contain repeating patterns.

Atessellationis a pattern of shapes that tiles a plane with no gaps and no overlaps. Each of the six shapes available in thisShape Tool Siteare able to tessellate. That is, you can arrange multiple copies of any of the shapes to completely cover the plane or use the Polygon Tessellation Creator

Patterns in Architecture

Use this interactive tool to create dynamic drawings on isometric dot paper. Draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes. You can shift, rotate, color, decompose, and view in 2‑D or 3‑D. Start by clicking on the cube along the left side; then, place cubes on the grid where you would like them.

Clik SELECT and draw a box around the emblem, then click COPY, next open your Super Hero project, and hit PASTE, move your emblem beside your Super Hero. You can hit COPY again to get more emblems to use in your Super Hero's costume or on their cape.

Use this interactive tool to create dynamic drawings on isometric dot paper. Draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes. You can shift, rotate, color, decompose, and view in 2‑D or 3‑D. Start by clicking on the cube along the left side; then, place cubes on the grid where you would like them.